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...v=6fdKfaq1YN8 – Sujeet wants more independent news and tough questions....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...In the 1960s, Rabanne’s designs were worn by some of the stars who defined the age: popular French singer Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...And Topo Designs, a Colorado brand known for its hardy backpacks, is about to launch its Mountain Series collection of colourful, retro-looking carriers made from 100 per cent recycled nylon....
...Davidson quotes Thomas Hardy’s poem “Seen by the Waits”, in which startled carol singers witness a squire’s wife dancing alone with “delinquent joy”....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...“The variety emphasises her technical virtuosity,” says gallerist Phillida Reid....
...This year, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg confirmed that “for the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world”....
.... -- We are all Susanna Reid. -- The perils of being a subprime global lender. -- The v small world of VC. -- Failure to launch. -- Weaponised interdependence. -- Naegleria fowleri. -- Family offices...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Meanwhile, in the V&A’s Blavatnik Hall, Bali-based designer Elora Hardy has assembled an installation of miniature bamboo buildings. Free, September 14-22; vam.ac.uk ....
...From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown. We walk to it often, meeting friends for summer swims and barbecues, or for fish and chips at The Anchor Inn....
...“You can’t think of the ’90s and not think of a man’s cardigan,” says Reid....
...These clothes, by contrast, will last a lifetime: in hardy wools, canvas-lined, they were substantial....
...The V&A acquired fragments of the building, including the exterior façade and interiors of two flats....
...We are pleased and proud to add this significant upstream asset to our infrastructure and downstream Nigerian investments,” said Vitol chief executive Russell Hardy in a statement....
...The Press Association quoted John Reid, manager of the Dundee factory, as saying the decision to close it had “nothing to do” with the UK’s impending departure from the EU....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...“The last couple of days are perhaps a taster of what might actually happen when yields properly normalise rather than simply selling off a bit,” said Jim Reid, strategist at Deutsche Bank....
...Learn how Meet Richard Reid, a psychologist and coach who believes he can ramp up charisma in everyone. Here is a crash course on the elusive quality everyone wants. (FT)...
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